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Medical Waste Management and Control
(2012-12)Medical centers including hospitals, clinics and places where diagnosis and treatment are conducted generate wastes that are highly hazardous and put people under risk of fatal diseases. Although the understanding of medical ... -
Melting performance of a composite bio-based phase change material: An experimental evaluation of copper foam pore size
(Elsevier, 2022)This paper presents an experimental study on the thermal performance of a composite heat sink consisting of a bio-based phase change material and copper foam. The experiments are carried out at three different heat loads ... -
Membrane bioreactor for wastewater treatment: A review
(Elsevier, 2021)Due to the growth in the human population globally, it is noted that various industries have also grown. The need for an excess supply of water and the generation of high effluent quality upon proper treatment technologies ... -
Membrane Bioreactor-Desalination Microbial Fuel Cell Hybrid System
(2018-04)The microbial desalination fuel cell (MDFC) is an emerging desalination technology offering great promise of high salinity removal with zero energy input. Moreover, the membrane bioreactor (MBR) is of great reliability in ... -
Memory Effect of the Southern Atlantic Subtropical Dipole
(American Meteorological Society, 2020-08-04)The South Atlantic subtropical dipole is the dominant mode of coupled variability in the South Atlantic, connecting sea level pressure and sea surface temperature. Previous studies have shown its great relevance to the ... -
Merging green infrastructure with the design of public open spaces: A brief literature review
(Universitätsverlag der Technischen Universität Berlin, 2011)The advent of new green infrastructure systems (decentralized, small-scaled facilities and spaces to produce energy, food, water, recycle wastewater, and dispose of organic waste based on renewable energy sources) offers ... -
Mesoscale Statistics and Scaling Laws in Planar Elastic Checkerboards
(2014-05)Miniaturization and the need for novel materials with unique properties have driven composite materials to the forefront of research in solid mechanics. The response of a composite microstructure is dependent on the ... -
Mesoscale Thermal Conductivity and Resistivity of Polycrystalline Graphite
(2015-07)With rapid advances in Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) and Nanotechnology applications, it has become essential to predict the properties of materials at length scales that are significantly below the macroscale. ... -
Meta-Heuristic Procedures for the Multi-Resource Leveling Problem with Activity Splitting
(2011-04)The proper utilization of resources is important to achieve project success. In project management, there are two types of resource scheduling problems. The first is resource allocation in which activities are scheduled ... -
Metal Organic Frameworks Electrodes for Microbial Fuel Cell Applications and Hydrogen Production
(2021-11)Microbial Fuel Cell is an innovative technology that offers production of clean electricity while treating the wastewater. One of the most important challenges affecting power generation is the overpotential losses at the ... -
Metallic coating thickness assessment over nonmagnetic metals using eddy current technology
(2019-04)Recent improvements in apparent eddy current conductivity (AECC) spectroscopy lends itself as a practical approach to assess metallic coating thicknesses over nonmagnetic metals. It can potentially offer one-order of ... -
Methodology for Selection of Agile Practices
(2013-06)Agile methods have received significant attention in the last ten years and have successfully been applied to many small- to medium-sized projects. They have enjoyed significant popularity amongst developers. Most of the ... -
A Methodology of Rule Discovery from Large-scale Multi-tier Noisy Educational Data
(2018-05)Recent availability of very large amounts of educational data in digital format often leads to data overload where it is difficult to determine important trends and patterns beyond those provided by traditional statistical ... -
Metronidazole conjugated magnetic nanoparticles loaded with amphotericin B exhibited potent effects against pathogenic Acanthamoeba castellanii belonging to the T4 genotype
(Springer, 2020)Acanthamoeba castellanii can cause granulomatous amoebic encephalitis and Acanthamoeba keratitis. Currently, no single drug has been developed to effectively treat infections caused by Acanthamoeba. Recent studies have ... -
Micelles and nanoparticles for ultrasonic drug and gene delivery
(Elsevier, 2008)Drug delivery research employing micelles and nanoparticles has expanded in recent years. Of particular interest is the use of these nanovehicles that deliver high concentrations of cytotoxic drugs to diseased tissues ... -
Microbial Desalination Cell (MDC) in the Presence of Activated Carbon
(American Scientific Publishers, 2014-10)This report studies the performance of a Microbial Desalination Cell (MDC) in the presence ofactivated carbon in both the cathode and anode chambers. The large surface area of the activatedcarbon provides surface for ... -
Microbial Desalination Cells Technology: A Review and a Case Study
(Elsevier, 2015-03)The microbial desalination cell (MDC) is a newly-developed technology which integrates the microbial fuel cell (MFC) process and electrodialysis for wastewater treatment, water desalination and production of renewable ... -
Microbial Removal from Secondary Treated Wastewater Using a Hybrid System of Ultrafiltration and Reverse Osmosis
(2012-07)The efficiency of advanced membranes towards removal of general and specific microbes from wastewater was investigated. The treatment included a subsequent system of activated sludge, ultrafiltration (hollow fibre membranes ... -
Microgrid Operation and Control
(2021-04)The world is moving toward renewable energy resources as a result of rising energy demand and the decline of fossil fuels. This move led to the shift of interest from the centralized conventional electric grids to decentralized ... -
A Micromorphic Beam Theory for Beams with Elongated Microstructures
(Nature, 2020)A novel micromorphic beam theory that considers the exact shape and size of the beam’s microstructure is developed. The new theory complements the beam theories that are based on the classical mechanics by modeling the ...